Underground

Chapter 16: Night 1 (Angela)

I looked at the house while my palms got sweaty inside the car on the wheel. They don't give 8 year olds licenses!

I looked at the foreign contraption trying to think of how Daddy does this. I put the gearshift in R the pressed the left pedal to the ground. Nothing happened. I then put the gearshift into D then pressed the right pedal all the way onto the ground as I gave a quick yelp and stepped completely on the left pedal once again right before I hit into someone's house. What's R? I put the gearshift into R once again and gingerly pressed the right pedal. I was slowly moving backwards? I looked behind as I moved the wheel a notch to the right. I think I understand now. I think Daddy called the right pedal the gas and the left pedal the brake. I hit the brake then put the gearshift into D as I started going to work.

Traffic was interesting. I understood that Red meant stop and Green meant go, that was Kindergarten stuff everyone knows this, but what's yellow? I never found out and thankfully never needed to find out.

I stopped the car in a designated spot the took the keys as I looked at the building that I had to enter for work. I stepped out of the car as I locked the doors, looking in awe.

"You act like you've never seen the place before Jacob." A voice called from behind me, almost giving me a restart. I turned around to see a man dressed in a purple suit, like mine but not blue.

"I seem to be having trouble, refreshing my memory." I replied, trying not to say anything about being an 8 year old girl who's in her daddy's body. He gave a small laugh.

"So should I just treat you like an employee in training?" I nodded, hoping to help with fitting in.

"Yes, I think I might have hit my head on something causing me to forget almost everything." He gave another chuckle, as if this entire thing was a joke.

"Yeah they'll do that to you sometimes." My expression was filled with confusion,

"They?"

"Must have hit your head harder then you thought. You remember me, right?" I shook my head no. "Then consider this a reunion," he held his hand out to shake my hand and put on a small grin, "the name's Trever."

I shook his hand not saying a word but just simply glancing at the building. He noticed and replied to the action,

"Oh right you must not remember Circus Baby's Pizzeria either."

"I thought it was Freddy's." He looked back at me with a brow raised.

"Used to be. Though Freddy's Pizzeria was getting a lot of lawsuit from parents claiming Freddy was killing their kids, so we redesigned Freddy and made Circus Baby the new star. Cleared a lot of problems up, surprisingly." I couldn't say anything. I was kinda scared now. Trever continued, "You're probably really confused. I get that. I'll explain more about it when you enter." He started walking into the building, I hesitated before following him.

"Are they going to try to kill me?" I asked as calmly as possible.

"No, you're not a kid and they'll kill kids for their spirit, but they will try to stuff you into a suit so watch out for that." I tried not to react harshly but, I am a kid's spirit. I'm Angela and I'm only 8, that's considers me!

We were inside an elevator now. I tried staying calm as I continued,

"How could they stuff me in a suit?"

"Well they'll try to lure you to The Scooper Room. Including the computer. If that happens you'll get scooped and they'll reside in your body and your spirit will basically die. That leaves an empty animatronic needing a child's spirit to reside in." I seemed scared that both would happen to me and that I'd be stuck in a suit.

"And who made these monsters?" Trever seemed offended,

"I did. And they're not monsters but they are... decomposers so to say. They help keep the population low along with those kids that think adults get it easy."

"That's not right."

"Well you can't quit so just follow me while I explain." I didn't say a thing after as we crawled through vents from room to room and he showed me where every animatronic was and their names. It seemed simple to remember, Foxy, Bonnie, Freddy, Ballora, and Circus Baby. It seemed easy enough, just click buttons and don't die.